ANTI-WAR CAMPAIGNER and former Army commandant Edward Horgan, whose 10-year US visa was revoked last month, will travel to North Carolina today after he was granted a three-month visa yesterday.
Mr Horgan is due to speak on the issue of extraordinary rendition at a conference at Duke University in North Carolina.
Last month, Mr Horgan received a letter from the US embassy in Dublin informing him that his 10-year visa had been revoked.
He said the letter cited “information” received by the US authorities as the reason for the decision, but gave no indication as to the nature of that information.
Mr Horgan, a member of the Peace and Neutrality Alliance (Pana) and a prominent campaigner against the use of Shannon airport by US military aircraft, said he had to provide the US embassy with documentation from Ennis District Court to prove he had not been involved in an attack on a US army aircraft at Shannon.
Mr Horgan, who had promised to address the North Carolina conference via video-link if he was not permitted to travel, was informed by the US embassy yesterday morning that he had been approved for a three-month visa.
“I am happy that there has been a successful outcome to this,” he said last night. “I have every intention of continuing to do what I have been doing, which is peaceful activism.”